Syntactic structures of Mandarin purposives

Liao, Wei-wen Roger; Lin, Tzong-Hong Jonah

doi:10.1515/ling-2018-0032

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“…The postverbal embedded clauses that are headed by de (得) 'such that' , as in (27a), and lai 'in order to' , as in (27b), do not have any correlative adverbs in the matrix clause (See Liao &Lin, 2019 andWei &Li, 2018 for other types of postverbal-only embedded clauses). friend 'Yani made masks in order to give them to her friends. '…”

Section: Sentence-final Embedded Clauses That Are Complement Clausesmentioning

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“…friend 'Yani made masks in order to give them to her friends. ' Such postverbal embedded clauses are widely recognized as the complement of the verb of the matrix clause (e.g., Sybesma, 1999 andYafei Li, 1999 for resultatives and Liao &Lin, 2019 andWei &Li, 2018 for purposives). We can add one more argument to the complement analyses.…”

Section: Sentence-final Embedded Clauses That Are Complement Clausesmentioning

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Two kinds of selection marking

Zhang

2022

IJChL

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Why does an argument clause contain a meaningless complementizer in languages such as English and German, but not in Mandarin; and why does an adverbial clause occur with a meaningless correlative adverb in the matrix clause in Mandarin, but not in languages such as English and German? Extending the c-selection from one type of sisterhood to another type of sisterhood, this paper recognizes the modification relation as a kind of selection relation, in addition to the familiar kind of argument-taking selection relation. This research argues that dependency marking is seen in different types of sister relations. It shows how Mandarin uses modification markers systematically, but does not use argument markers, also systematically. The paper explains the existence of modification markers in various constructions in Mandarin and in various languages. It lets us gain a better understanding of language variations.

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Section: Sentence-final Embedded Clauses That Are Complement Clausesmentioning

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Section: Sentence-final Embedded Clauses That Are Complement Clausesmentioning

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Two kinds of selection marking

Zhang

2022

IJChL

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“…In particular, the dislocated VP like (17) allows the aboutness topic reading (17a) and the purposive reading (17b). Note that the purposive reading (17b) can be analyzed as fronting of the purposive clause (see Liao & Lin 2019) to the sentence-initial position, as visualized in (18a) and (18b).…”

Section: The Structure Of Dislocated Vpsmentioning

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On the Syntax of Vp Dislocation in Mandarin*

Jheng

2022

Studia Linguistica

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By drawing on data of two types of VP dislocation in Mandarin, this paper argues that these two types represent a syntactic incarnation of XP-split constructions providing an interesting argument for the conception of information structure starting in the numeration and multiple Spell-Out of copies regulated by the checking of strong features over the course of a syntactic derivation. Building on Fanselow and Cavar's ( 2002) distributed deletion analysis, I show that Type 1 involves two autonomous nominals that form a nominal predicate structure in a VP, and the VP is copied and internally merged to a topic position, followed by multiple Spell-Out of the copies whose information structural features are checked. In contrast, Type 2 is derived via base-generation. I argue that the two types are derived employing the same set of operations in the computational system without extra postulations. Issues involved in dealing with Mandarin topic constructions are addressed.*This article is a revised version of Chapter 2 and 3 of my PhD dissertation. I wish to express my gratefulness to Hsiao-hung Iris Wu, Wei-tien Dylan Tsai, Wei-wen Roger Liao and Chyan-an Arthur Wang for their constructive comments on the earlier versions of the article and two anonymous reviewers of Studia Linguistica for their valuable suggestions which make this article close to being in the vicinity of satisfaction and adequacy. I owe deeply to Chris Hsu, Mindy Kuo, Larry Liu and Grace Liu for discussing the data with me. The remaining inadequacies, conceptual or empirical, are solely my own responsibility.

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“…Second, only verbs can control the dependent subject of an embedded clause, whereas no adjective can do so. A clause introduced by the complementizer lai 'come' is a purposive clause that has a PRO subject (Liao & Lin 2019), as seen in ( 6a). An adjective can never control a lai-clause.…”

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Two categorial issues of degree constructions in Mandarin

Zhang

2021

J East Asian Linguist

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This squib argues against Yiwen Zhang’s (J East Asian Linguist 29:393–434, 2020) adjective analysis of the Mandarin word you ‘have’ to the left of a gradable noun, as in you yongqi ‘have courage’, showing that it is a verbal element. It also shows that for a gradable predicate of any category, if the question under discussion is about a comparison of individuals with respect to a gradable property, the degree word hen ‘very’ is banned; if the question under discussion is about the content of a gradable property of an individual, hen must occur; and finally, if the question under discussion is not about either of the two above, hen is optional.

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Syntactic structures of Mandarin purposives

Cited by 8 publications

References 25 publications

Two kinds of selection marking

Two kinds of selection marking

On the Syntax of Vp Dislocation in Mandarin*

Two categorial issues of degree constructions in Mandarin

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